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In the 21st century photography has come of age as a contemporary
art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was
first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate
medium, equal in status to painting and sculpture. This book
provides an introduction to the extraordinary range of contemporary
art photography, from portraits of intimate life to highly staged,
'directorial' spectacle. The vast span of photographers whose work
is reproduced includes established artists such as Isa Genzken,
Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Thomas Demand, Nan Goldin and Sherry
Levine, as well as emerging talents such as Sara VanDerBeek, Rashid
Johnson, Viviane Sassen and Amalia Ulman. This new edition
revitalizes previous discussion of works from the 2000s through
dialogue with more recent practice. Adding to the wide selection
featured of work, Cotton celebrates a new generation of artists,
who are shaping photography as a culturally significant medium for
our current socio-political climate.
Public, Private, Secret explores the roles that photography and
video play in the crafting of identity, and the reconfiguration of
social conventions that define our public and private selves.
Consciously framed by our present era, this collection of essays,
interviews, and reflections assesses how our image-making and
consumption patterns are embedded and implicated in a wider matrix
of online behavior and social codes, which in turn give images a
life of their own. Within this context, our visual creations and
online activities blur and remove conventional delineations between
public and private (and sometimes secret) expression; in fact, they
multiply and expand the number of potential selves in the
contemporary image-centric world. The writings address the various
disruptions, resistances, and subversions that artists propose to
the limited versions of race, gender, sexuality, and autonomy that
populate mainstream popular culture. In so doing, they anticipate a
future for our image-world rich with diversity and alterity, one
that can be shaped and influenced by the agency of self-
representation.
Mert Alas, born in Turkey, and Marcus Piggott, born in Wales, met
in 1994, at a party on a pier in Hastings, England. Piggott asked
Alas for a light, the pair got talking, and rapidly discovered they
had plenty in common, not least a love of fashion. Three years
later, the duo now known as Mert and Marcus had moved into a
derelict loft in East London, converted it into a studio, and had
their first collaborative photographic work published in Dazed
& Confused. These days, Mert and Marcus shape the global image
of such renowned brands as Giorgio Armani, Roberto Cavalli, Fendi,
Miu Miu, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Givenchy, and Lancome, and
public figures including Lady Gaga, Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Linda
Evangelista, Gisele Bundchen, Bjoerk, Angelina Jolie, and Rihanna.
Their photographs encompass a wide range of styles and influences
but are renowned particularly for their use of digitized
augmentation of images, and a fascination for strong, sexually
charged, confident female subjects: "powerful women, women with a
meaning, a
you-don't-have-to-talk-or-move-too-much-to-tell-who-you-are kind of
woman." Bringing our best-selling Collector's Edition to an
affordable, compact format, this collection explores the unique
vision of a creative partnership that has defined and redefined
standards for glamour, fashion, and luxury. Approximately 300
images from the megawatt Mert and Marcus portfolio are accompanied
by an introduction by Charlotte Cotton. First published as a
TASCHEN Collector's Edition, now available as an affordable,
compact edition
An evocative photographic homage shot by renowned image-makers that
celebrates the iconic archival fashion designs of Francisco Costa
for Calvin Klein. From 2003 to 2016, Francisco Costa was the
creative director and women s collections designer for the American
fashion house Calvin Klein. It was a time of creative abundance,
one that simultaneously supported both fashion design
experimentation and its traditional crafts. In 2020, Costa
revisited his fashion collections archive and invited twenty-one
photographers to receive a box containing hand-selected prototype
and runway clothing from Costa s Calvin Klein women s collections
that could be used either as inspiration or directly as props and
costumes within photographs. 555 is a collaborative project that
celebrates the iconic collection s reanimation and visual
transformation by an extraordinary congregation of participating
artists and image-makers. Moody, contemplative, and provocative
images featured range from observational and documentary
photography to self-portraiture, evocative nude editorials, fashion
photography, and visual records of artistic performances. Housed in
a beautifully crafted, limited edition clamshell box, twenty-one
unbound booklets, printed on various tactile paper stocks, feature
photographic stories by Diego Villarreal, Marcelo Gomes, Nick
Waplington, Jamie Hawkesworth, Hugh Lippe, Alessandra Sanguinetti,
Joel Meyerowitz, Lea Colombo, and Collier Schorr.
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